Navigate Backwards and Forwards button missing

When you first launched Visual Studio, what settings did you choose? If you choosed Visual Basic, then you will see see a simplified toolbar layout that was intended to expose only the most commonly used commands.

The bad news is that these commands were not considered the most commonly used commands.

The good news is that you can easily modify what commands will show up on the toolbars/in your menus...

In the top-level Tools menu, select Customize... Select the Commands tab in the dialog. In the list of Categories select "View" (the commands we are looking for here is the View.NavigateForward and View.NavigateBackward) Select the command you want to add to the toolbar from the Commands list. Now you can drag the command to the the toolbar that you want the command to appear on. You can also add and remove commands from menus here.

If you later want to save your new and improved menu/command bar layout, you can go to tools->options->Import/export settings..., select export settings and select what IDE settings you want to save. (The menu customizations are under the General category in the treeview)

Best regards,
Johan Stenberg

JohanStenberg at 2007-9-9 >